Ling Ma

Ling Ma is an American novelist and associate professor at the University of Chicago. Her debut, Severance, follows Candace Chen, an office worker who becomes one of the last uninfected people left in a plague-emptied New York City, and it won the Kirkus Prize in 2018. Her second novel, Bliss Montage, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Story Prize. She was named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.